Wetmore Lookout Tower

Wetmore Lookout Tower

Wetmore Lookout Tower Photograph by Kathryn Bishop Eckert
Photo 2 of Wetmore Lookout Tower
1930s. 2518 Federal Forest Hwy. 13, 1.2 miles south of Wetmore

Enrollees of the CCC erected the one-hundred-foot-tall steel tower and stairway on a high point of land for use in detecting forest fires. The vertical members of the structure are braced with horizontal, vertical, and cross members. Nine flights of stairs, each concluding at a landing, rise up through the center of the steel superstructure and lead, eventually, to an enclosed lookout at the top of the tower.

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